topic HP DS2405 support MSCS Active/Passive cluster? in Disk

HP DS2405 support MSCS Active/Passive cluster?

Sheldon Hage — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:03:57 GMT

I can't find anything that says MSCS is supported on this system. Can anyone comment?

Re: HP DS2405 support MSCS Active/Passive cluster?

Marco Hogeveen — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 05:49:55 GMT

Sheldon.

The DS2405 is a 'JBOD' (Just A Bunch of Disks) which means that there's no RAID controller in it. Fibrechannel Host Bus Adapters also do not have RAID logics on them so it's not good to use this as a shared storage for a MSCS cluster.

You CAN use the DS2405 on a cluster when you connect it to a VA7410 (which does have RAID logics built in).

HOpe this helps.

Marco

Re: HP DS2405 support MSCS Active/Passive cluster?

Joaquin Gil de Vergara — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 07:52:29 GMT

it works...

but MSCSC don't support software RAID

your cluster will not have disk redundancy... it's not a good idea :-(